Night Owls

Jerry glanced down at the photograph in his hand, then back up again at the woman sitting alone at the back of the cafe.

The woman in the cafe glanced down at the photo in her hand and back at Jerry. They caught each others eyes.

All at once a blinding light coursed through the space. Jerry and the woman froze. And then a creature appeared, seemingly from the air itself.

It turns out, the woman was not his mother, and neither was the creature. Jerry was still motherless.